Big country, "louder is better", teens blasting their hearing with in-ears, concerts that leave your ears ringing for days, inadequate safety in the workplace, heavy use of drugs like Viagra (yes, hearing loss and tinnitus are a side effect in some users with high blood pressure). Diet-related hearing loss too as a lot of people eat crap. Probably other reasons too.
> heavy use of drugs like Viagra (yes, hearing loss and tinnitus are a side effect in some users with high blood pressure)
Oh wow. The Manga/Anime trope of male characters spontaneously bleeding from the nose when they get er... excited might actually have some real world examples.
Pretty sure "bleeding from the nose and ears" would kill the mood completely though. For most of the population anyway. ;)
Anecdote: Sudafed used to actually make my dad's nose bleed, but not just internally, from the external pores of the nose, and from the backs of his hands in terms of pores.
Depending on what you've lacked, for how long, your age—these are all variables. The younger you are, the lower the chances of reversing it as kids need a decent diet, period. How long you've been subsisting of off crap is the important one.
With all the above said, one of my born-blind friends has started going deaf due to bad diet, and whilst changing his diet hasn't improved his hearing, it has massively improved his overall health and importantly halted the hearing loss at the rate it was going, so it's not been a pointless exercise to make a lifestyle change that'll benefit him in the years to come.
Wishing anyone reading this good health for them and theirs.
